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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug</H1>
<B>blind Pete</B>
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<I>Sat Jul 7 06:08:30 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>David W. Hodgins wrote:
><i> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:03:34 -0400, blind Pete
</I>><i> <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">0123peter at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
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</I>>><i> Morgan Leijström wrote:
</I>>>><i> It would also be interesting to know what other tools say.
</I>>>><i> gparted?
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</I>>><i> Gparted looks pretty. As far as I can see, gparted agrees
</I>>><i> with what I think things should look like. Gparted and
</I>>><i> fdisk agree about the number of sectors. (More than you
</I>>><i> get by multiplying CxHxS.)
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</I>><i> Interesting. I guess it would be best to use 'hdparm -i /dev/sda|grep
</I>><i> LBAsects" to find out the number of sectors.
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</I>><i> Regards, Dave Hodgins
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[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at live</A> ~]# hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep LBA
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1953523055
[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at live</A> ~]#
Same number of sectors as gparted and fdisk report. Number of heads
and sectors per cylinder are just, "it's a big disk". _Posssibly_
number of cylinders gives a clue about how big. H can be 63 or 255,
depending on mood, and CxHxS should be a little less than max LBA.
The situation just got worse. The latest work arround is to lie
about how big a sector is. That is called "advanced" formatting.
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blind Pete
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